Today i’m installing ampache with a nerd in training on his ubuntu laptop heres the notes
install required stuff
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 phpmyadmin mysql-server
Go to http://localhost to see if “It Works!” if so then apache2 is running.
Then try http://localhost/phpmyadmin if it loads then ya have php5 working with apache2! requirements done. Let’s move on
I woke up yesterday and noticed that a friend of mines domain was expired. This is not usually a big deal and can be fixed up with a few minutes and a credit card. However this particular newbie originally purchased her domain from a reseller that was reselling Tucows registrar service. Well by the time this expiration happened this reseller had moved on and was no longer doing domain sales, Making it impossible to make a payment to renew the domain name. The contact information was listed within a whois, but nobody returned my calls.
Registration Service Provider:
Coast to Coast Hosting, dns-admin@ctch.net
303-333-8947
http://www.ctch.net
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
When I visited the website I got this “Out of Business” page.
Out of Business
Massive Server Failures Shut Us Down
Coast to Coast Hosting is no longer accepting new clients nor renewing contracts with existing clients due to several servers suffering massive disk failure.
This reseller probably did the right thing leaving the business. Heres a tip: If you can’t keep a computer running well DO NOT RUN SERVERS! Servers don’t fail on you unless you fail on them. Okay, so this guy dropped of the planet, fucking all his clients in the process. The clients did not know it yet because they are all newbs, but they will all be learning the hard way when the domains start to expire.
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These are my notes on installing the required software to utilize a pseudo anonymous remailer or “Nymserver” using Windows XP and available software. These are really just my install notes, however I’m posting them to my blog in case someone might find it useful.
Everything you need to get this up and running is available for download from panta you will need to grab pgp v658,Mixmaster and JBN2 at a minimum. Optionally you can grab the very useful panta mod for JBN.
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If you know what a nymserver is then you may also know there is little or no documentation on getting one installed. Its a bitch. These are my notes from the install. They are quite brief but I figured they may be helpful if your working with nymserver.pl and are stuck on something, so I’m sharing.
I did not write this. it got dugg and the site hosting it went down for the count. I had to share.
I only met my brother’s ex-girlfriend’s family once — the year they invited our family over to share Thanksgiving dinner. Since we were basically a group of strangers looking to make a good first impression, the table conversation was nothing more than friendly idle chitchat.
When I asked our hostess for more mashed potatoes, she took the opportunity to ask me about myself while dishing out my second helping — “So Shaun, what do you do for a living?”
Hesitantly, I responded: “I work in computer support.”
The transition to silence was immediate. All eyes suddenly turned to me, raised eyebrows all around. If you hadn’t heard my response, judging from everyone’s reaction you might think I said something outrageous like I was a male stripper or a gynecologist — but I knew the awkward silence would soon be broken by an overwhelming outpouring of computer questions.
“Oh wow, a computer guy!” — “So you know how to remove spyware and viruses and stuff, right?” — “Our family computer is really slow, I think it has a virus.” — “Do you have a business card, or can I get your number?”
Well last night my right hand nerd, Scotty and I upgraded the dkhosting.net server to use software RAID1 from a SCSI drive. This is what we did.
Manually Install new hard drives: This was simple. It’s a dell with some green rails that make it easy.We set them both as masters and threw them on different IDE channels so we have /dev/hda & /dev/hdc and then we got busy.
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Well another day here and all the things I wanted to do aren’t getting done.. Debugging a bunch of stuff instead. I was up late with our friend Dave over at ComputerCures.Biz setting him up with a slick OpenWRT router setup and when we finished at 2:00am he gifted me a brand new Western Digital 400 Gig USB hard drive. Of course this hard drive is quite slow to deal with when you only have USB1 handy, however I do have USB2 on my server in the closet we all know as “hugh” that runs gentoo and honestly has never been updated since put into use.. Well it’s not going well something is choking on it and dmesg is just spitting out repeated errors.
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
If I Remove the USB2 driver with “rmmod ehci_hcd” the ohci_hcd module works just fine but its USB1 slow. So I’m updating the kernel in hopes that this is some bug in the ehci module that will be fixed up good in the newer kernel.
I’m into the world of “emerge” and this could take a while to get the stuff I need updated. I kinda wish “hugh” was like the rest of my computers here, running Debian so I could just install a pre-built kernel quickly to test my theory.
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